Elegant or rustic, a tangible, specific, and concrete Harlem can be explored in the book, “ Harlem Lost and Found: An Architectural and Social History, 1795-1915 ” by yours truly, Michael Henry Adams ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why it still matters.

I thought about New York. I thought about the time period, and that got me to the Harlem Renaissance ... reading one of his early poems, "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

The Harlem Renaissance — known then as the "New Negro Movement" — saw the rise of jazz, the launch of such literary careers as Langston Hughes' and Zora Neale Hurston's, and a new sense of ...

Capital Area District Libraries’ expert selectors have curated a dynamic Black History Month reading list for all ages, celebrating voices, stories, and legacies that continue to shape our world. From ...

Harlem was pronounced the “Mecca of the New Negro” 99 years ago. That cultural renaissance is as far from us today as the contributors to that Survey Graphic issue were from the presidency of ...

Today, we refer to that era as the Harlem Renaissance. At the time, author Alain Locke dubbed it as The New Negro Movement. Art collector Chris Norwood at the Hampton Art Lovers gallery at the ...

Alain Locke, the chief theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, identified Harlem as the home of the New Negro, the Black man or woman liberated from stereotypes, shaping their own life as they shaped ...